Re: SAME AS ('02 Standard) Clause - and circulatiy

According to page 29 of the approved '02 Standard,

"The actions of compiler directing statements and compiler directives occur in
two logical stages of compilation group processing - the text manipulation stage
and the compilation stage.

The text manipulation stage accepts an initial compilation group, performs
modifications specified by COPY and REPLACE statements and conditional
compilation directives, and substitutes compilation variables into constant
entries. The result is a structured compilation group for processing by the
compilation stage.

The compilation stage completes the compilation process utilizing the structured
compilation group."

Are we talking about different things here?

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Bill Klein
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"Rick Smith" <ricksmith@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"William M. Klein" <wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rick,
Once again, you can submit an interpretation request IF YOU WANT TO,
but my
impression is that you think the standard does (or should) tell
implementers in
what order to do things. Other than the "text manipulation" and
"compilation"
stages, this is simply NOT true.

I think you may have meant "logical conversion" (one line at
a time) and "text manipulation" (three phases).





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